On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Doug Schepers wrote:
>
> Hi, Aaron-
>
> Aaron Boodman wrote (on 3/6/08 8:55 PM):
>> I work on Google Gears team. If you're not familiar with what Gears
>> is, you can learn more here: http://code.google.com/apis/gears.
>> We've been working on an API that will allow an application to obtain
>> (with permission) the user's current location. I posted this to the
>> WhatWG mailing list, but it was suggested that this might be a more
>> appropriate place.
>> Anyway, here's our current design:
>> http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/LocationAPI
>> We think there's a lot of potential for interesting applications with
>> a API like this. Some examples would be recommendations for nearby
>> restaurants, turn by turn directions, or city walking tours.
>> Are there any other vendors interested in implementing something like
>> this? If so, we'd like to work together to come up with a standard.
>> Otherwise, I'll just put this out there for comment for the time
>> being. We'd appreciate any feedback on the design, one way or the
>> other.
>
> This is interesting stuff, and I agree it is very useful to have.
>
> There is already some activity happening in this area, in the
> Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group (UWA or UbiWeb). [1] It's
> obviously a hot topic, and one I personally hope can be specified
> and deployed quickly (since we're already about 15 years behind
> Japan in this stuff ^_^ ).
>
> I think you hit the nail regarding vendors... that's a crucial next
> step.
>
> I'm happy to facilitate bringing your insight in this area to W3C,
> and I'm sure we can find the best way to move this forward, and get
> involvement from other vendors. Feel free to drop me a line
> offlist, and I can do a bit more research and point you in the right
> direction.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
I am much more interested in Aaron's proposal than in DCCI (comments
forthcoming).
Regards,
Maciej